(military general who had a relationship with yang guifei and tried to overthrow(revolt) xuanzong) tang dynasty

su zong

tang dynasty (son of xuanzong)

Uighurs

(helped su zong win the civil war) tang dynasty

huang chao revolt

(revolt of a person who repeatedly failed the civil service exam) tang dynasty

5 dynasty period

period of disunification after tang dynasty

song dynasty

after 5 dynasty period

zhao kuangying

song dynasty (decides the military was the reason for the fall of the tang dynasty and gives soldiers a bad reputation)

liao empire

(paid off by) song dynasty(so don't fight)

wang ansi

(experiments and helps make welfare state) song dynasty

welfare state

song dynasty (gov't safety net for people ex. hospitals, price/wage controls helped to be put in place by wang ansi)

song innovations

credit/checks, military improvements, bound feet

southern song dynasty

caused because of emperor hui zong and the jin dynasty

hui zong

emperor of the song dynasty that got tired of paying off the liao, so he paid the jurchens to attack the liao, so the liao got a bigger, stronger empire/ part of the song and made the jin dynasty

jurchens

who hui zong paid off to attack the liao, and they also took part of the song making the jin dynasty

jin dynasty

the dynasty that was made by the jurchens made up of the liao empire and some of the song empire

ming dynasty

next dynasty after the yuan dynasty

mongols

nomads that want to take over china, ended up making a large empire quickly, which opened up trade, made peace, can't attack Europe and India b/c of climate, they attack quickly on horses

Gengis khan

controlled propaganda, divided people into larger and smaller groups, made commanders send son and sons best friend to him if commanders revolt son and friend are killed for loyalty and trained them to be commanders, took over the jin, khuriltai

khuriltai

democratic process where leaders vote on different issues

consensus

because zhao kuangying is confucian, everyone has to agree, called this

next mongol leader after orgodei, holds competition between religions, asks Hulegu to attack the ME and Khubilai to attack the Song dynasty

hulegu

attacks the ME, military mastermind, dammed up river to Bagdhad, launches palm trees, locked the caliph in a room with no food and only gold, trampled royal family with horses in carpet(not spilling their blood was nice)

Khubilai

attacks Song China, creates the yuan dynasty (says that he has the mandate of heaven and that he is taking china to unite it and not add it to the Mongol empire), attacks Japan twice and fails because of kamikazi

japan

who Khubiai attacks, but both times his ships are ruined/sunk by kamikazi

kamikazi

storms that sunk Khubilai's ships while they were attacking Japan twice